Apple M1 MacBooks destroy Microsoft’s Surface Pro X tablet in new benchmarks

When we reviewed the excellent MacBook Air (M1, 2020), which is our pick for the best laptop in the world, we knew it would spell trouble for Microsoft and its Windows on ARM devices, and new benchmarks appear to bear that out.

The latest MacBook AIr, along with the refreshed MacBook Pro 13-inch and new Mac mini, all use Apple’s new ARM-based M1 chip, rather than the Intel hardware they used to run on. In our tests we were really impressed by the performance of the M1 chip, and thanks to the Rosetta 2 tool, Apple provided a way to run older Mac apps that were designed to run on Intel hardware with a minimum of impact to performance.

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